We have hosted a lot of important visitors at Thomson Reuters headquarters. Over the years we have had Prime Ministers Heads of State Royalty Chancellors and Treasury Secretaries Central Bank Governors the Secretary General of the UN Ambassadors and a steady stream of valued customers and partners. However none has been as important as the special guest we had in our Times Square global headquarters in New York this past New Year’s Eve.
Sixteen year-old Kelsi from Minnesota had a wish and the Make-a-Wish Foundation had the friends to make it happen. This intrepid leukemia patient watched the ball drop in Times Square from the safety and warmth of the Thomson Reuters boardroom and was treated to a special party for her family. There are bigger and more strategic events that will take place in that room this year but none will make us feel as good.
Hello Tom The more and more I get to know you from afar the more impressed I am. I had the pleasure of meeting you during the annual Scientific meetings in Florida. Speaking with you provided a few gut feeling reactions as identified below. You are human before being a CEO. You are in touch or leading the pulse rather than responding to the beat. You decided to let your soul shine rather than your title. Thank you for making me feel like the CEO of Thomson Reuters is my next door neighbor in Ann Arbor.
Love that! You’ll probably enjoy my entry “Sebastion” on my site for something similar in the ski world at skitownjournal.com/edge and I look forward to meeting you in Feb! Kirsten Texler
Dear Mr Glocer Delighted to see a great gesture from Thomson Reuters to make this happen for this 16-year old leukemia patient. I work in Manhattan and I know how it is during New Year’s eve. Able person will find it difficult in sometimes brutal climate and ofcourse the mad rush. Nice to see this and that shows how much touch you have for human elements. I wish we have people only with that traits so that we won’t have 9/11 Mumbai blasts that rocked our country Spain Train London Underground incidents and many more. Kind regards Sai VP CSS Corp http://www.csscorp.com